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  1. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    In my experience it is the hardest Quetzal to see. I hav e probably heard it 10-15 times and seen it 3-4? It did take a LONG time (years) to get good views. There is luck involved of course but it’s not an bird you can go tick on any given day, that’s for sure.
  2. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    I have only one lifer while using the (in situ) facilities, but it's a story best not told in too much detail. It involves a (thankfully) deserted 4WD track in Peru, what is now called Oxapampa Antpitta, a bit of GI distress, and using the bins from a very low squat while doing something very...
  3. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Yeah but “near inconvenient experience” doesn’t have the same ring ;)
  4. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    I think you are now winning this thread 🤣 Lifers while having near death experiences have to beat lifers while having diarrhea 🤣
  5. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Now that is awesome :)
  6. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Hah yeah I have multiple Semicollared also. I’ve only seen Lined poorly, it’s still one I try to see better when opportunities arise but haven’t had as good an experience with it as with others. And goes without saying I guess but I’ve not even heard Plumbeous either. I think a lot of people...
  7. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    One of my good friends with whom I’ve shared some really great birding trips has seen Tiny Hawk a half a dozen times or so but never seen Bicolored Hawk. Meanwhile I’ve seen Bicolored Hawk about 15 times in about 10 countries… the vagaries of birding!
  8. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    I have still never seen one. I think I’ve heard it 30+ times and put in concerted effort a dozen times or so, including at Tapanti. Certainly, along with Hooded and Tawny-breasted Tinamous, my worst streak in terms of not seeing a bird that I am able to find. Tiny Hawk and Slaty-backed...
  9. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Hah I would rather do this with Cattle Egret! And I inadvertently lied there about Ruddy Turnstone - I used to have Cattle Egret as my seen in the most places bird but with it splitting in eBird (where I track things, it is what it is) it fell to below Ruddy Turnstone which was fortunate I...
  10. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Ruddy Turnstone is the second most widely seen bird for me by number of countries, beating out W Cattle Egret, Osprey, or Peregrine even but losing to Great Egret. I probably saw it in 8-10 other countries before seeing it where I was living.
  11. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Bewick that whole story is gold 🤣
  12. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Yeah GHOW is borderline a trash bird. A good one though! The reverse could be true for Snipe. I have likely seen more Common Snipe in one day in Europe than I have Wilson’s in several years in the US. But maybe somewhere in the midwest or east it happens that you see 100’s of Snipe in one day?
  13. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    I love these kind of silly things. A friend of mine and I organized a remote Sumatra trip last year and another keen young friend joined for his first time in Asia. The number of hard/rare birds he saw before seeing mundane stuff was absolutely hilarious.
  14. pbjosh

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    I’m talking about things like getting a mega vagrant while going to the bathroom or otherwise jamming something ridiculously good in a bizarre manner, statistically ridiculous occurences, laughable holes in your lists, etc. IE I have a friend who got his lifer African Paradise-Flycatcher inside...
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